Script for making a KVM VM from a kickstart

[Chris Adams]

I have been building up a script to quickly and easily make CentOS/RHEL
and Fedora VMs from kickstart files for a long time, and thought I'd see
if anyone else was interested.  It's especially useful IMHO if you are
working on building kickstarts, because you can fairly rapidly iterate
and test.

I've got it built as an RPM, so if others think this is useful, I might
submit it to Fedora and EPEL.

Let me know what you think!

https://github.com/cmadamsgit/ks-install

[Philip Rhoades]

Chris,

On 2022-01-16 10:01, Chris Adams wrote:
> I have been building up a script to quickly and easily make CentOS/RHEL
> and Fedora VMs from kickstart files for a long time, and thought I'd 
> see
> if anyone else was interested.  It's especially useful IMHO if you are
> working on building kickstarts, because you can fairly rapidly iterate
> and test.
>
> I've got it built as an RPM, so if others think this is useful, I might
> submit it to Fedora and EPEL.
>
> Let me know what you think!
>
> https://github.com/cmadamsgit/ks-install

Thanks! - will check it out . .

P.

[Peter Boy]

Hi,
> Am 16.01.2022 um 00:01 schrieb Chris Adams :
>
> I have been building up a script to quickly and easily make CentOS/RHEL
> and Fedora VMs from kickstart files for a long time, and thought I'd see
> if anyone else was interested.  It's especially useful IMHO if you are
> working on building kickstarts, because you can fairly rapidly iterate
> and test.

We are building up a documentation about Fedora Server, currently specifically about creating VMs. The staging version is available at https://docs.stg.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-server/

Currently we have a guide on the interactive use of Cockpit. We miss a corresponding guide and supporting resources for Kickstart. It would be really great if we could integrate your work and your experience. Potential topics would be e.g. according to which concept your Kickstart file forms the VM and a workflow for CLI and Cockpit. We (the Fedora Server Working Group) also have a download area, in case an rpm proves to be too much work.

Documentation is tedious. But without documentation, a lot of good work is unfortunately not really usable. Would be happy if we could work together on this.

Best
Peter